'You can’t feel like you belong to this country'

You can’t feel like you belong to this country:



Each day this week, we've been speaking to the different communities affected by the Israel-Gaza conflict.

On Wednesday, we heard from friends Khadija and Adrieh, two Israeli Arab women..

Israeli Arabs are people who live in Israel but strongly identify with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Both young mums, Khadija and Adrieh grew up together in Jaffa, a city with mixed communities of people with Palestinian and Jewish backgrounds.

Since the fighting began, there have been flare-ups of intercommunal violence between Israeli Arabs and Jews across Israel.

she was afraid to go out and live her life as usual.

"It’s not new to be afraid to be an Arab woman here in Israel, but it’s very new to me to be afraid to walk in my neighbourhood," she said.

"If you can’t feel safe in your country, you can’t feel like you belong to this country."

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